Senator John Ensign says his sleazy recent affair wasn’t nearly as bad as Bill Clinton’s blow jobs in the Oval Office:
“I haven’t done anything legally wrong,” the Nevada Republican told the Associated Press in an interview. “President Clinton stood right before the American people and he lied to the American people,” Ensign said. “You remember that famous day he lied to the American people, plus the fact I thought he committed perjury. That’s why I voted for the articles of impeachment.”
There you have it. Ensign may have carried on with with a friend’s wife for months, leaving their family in shambles, and he may have then bribed them to stay quiet in small chunks deliberately designed to evade IRS rules, but by God he didn’t lie to the American people. So that’s OK.
